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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...

May 8, 2026

New French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

French Senate endorses postponement of New Caledonia’s provincial elections

October 17, 2025

While Māori are guaranteed representation through the Māori electoral roll at the national level . . .

Gerard Otto: Low turnout and rates pressure drive down Māori wards...

October 12, 2025

Local body election candidates

‘We need to be involved’: Pasifika candidates running in Auckland local...

August 15, 2025

The French political impasse

What the fall of the French government means for New Caledonia

December 5, 2024

Media company NZME proposes to close 14 of its community newspapers

Call for expanded Local Democracy Reporting scheme as NZME plans to...

November 15, 2024

Protesters at a local inner Sydney council meeting

Rightwing astroturfers infiltrate Australian local councils, fire up unrest over Israel

September 11, 2024

Kiribati elections . . . calm as polling begins

Kiribati elections 2024: Polls open but ‘hype isn’t like other countries’

August 14, 2024

Kiribati elections tomorrow

Kiribati elections 2024 – what’s at stake in today’s vote

August 14, 2024

The Kiribati Parliament House

What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?

August 5, 2024

French Polynesia’s pro-France party leaders, including Edouard Fritch (left, standing) are holding back-to-back meetings

French Pacific prepares for snap elections with mixed expectations

June 13, 2024

The French National Assembly in session

New Caledonia’s provincial elections delay passes final voting hurdle

March 21, 2024

South Taranaki Mayor Phil Nixon

Iwi and council join forces as new NZ government signals cuts...

November 27, 2023

The rise in drug trafficking through Fiji is just one part of a booming trans-Pacific trade

Fall of a Fijian trafficker exposes previous government’s blind eye to...

October 20, 2023

Several candidates from different parties have spoken out about being targeted

NZ elections 2023: Green Party, Te Pāti Māori call out ‘harmful...

September 30, 2023

Tino Rangatiratanga flag

Dominic O’Sullivan: The role of Te Tiriti in boosting local government

October 15, 2022

New Wellington mayor-elect Tory Whanau

Win for diversity in Wellington, defeat in Auckland as NZ votes...

October 8, 2022

Fa'anānā Efeso Collins (left) and Wayne Brown

NZ local elections: A Pacific mayor possible for biggest city Auckland?

October 7, 2022

Mt Roskill's Rachael Mario (second from left with fellow election contestants)

Love of social work propels Rotuma’s Rachael Mario into local elections

September 16, 2022

Educator Hiroshi Taniguchi

Elections hopeful Taniguchi gave up citizenship to become Fijian

August 19, 2022

Te Maruata chair Bonita Bigham

NZ local government: ‘We’re ready for change – it’s about youth...

July 23, 2022

Wellington Councillor Tamatha Paul

Māori councillors condemn racism faced in NZ local government role

July 21, 2022

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Fiji media workers of the Fijian Media Association celebrate a belated World Press Freedom Day in the capital Suva

Democracy

Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn...

A "No more complicity with war crimes" banner at a "Stop Wars" march at Devonport

Analysis

Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what...

Al Jazeera journalist Tohid Asadi

Asia Report

Strait of Hormuz ‘open’ except for enemies, as new Iran insurance...

A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military

Asia Report

‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Israeli embassy controversy in Wellington

Asia Report

Solve ‘genocide embassy’ issue – expel Israeli ambassador, says PSNA

Asia Report

Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global...

PNG's Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

Culture

New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women...

New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections

Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Israeli embassy controversy in Wellington

Asia Report

Solve ‘genocide embassy’ issue – expel Israeli ambassador, says PSNA

Asia Report

Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global...

"The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out."

Analysis

Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections

Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll